7Sex-Determined Issues in Multiple Sclerosis Callene Momtazee and Barbara Giesser Department of Neurology, MS Division, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA Epidemiology of MS and gender Most autoimmune…
5Relapsing MS: Disease Staging and Therapeutic Algorithms Mohsen Khoshnam and Mark Freedman Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) starts out as a…
2Immunopathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis Anne H. Cross and Laura Piccio Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA What does the neuropathology of MS tell us…
Introduction Behavioral Activation (BA) has a long history dating back to the late 1960s. During this history variants of BA have appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in new form. Currently two…
Two Cognitive Behavior Therapy Interventions This chapter focuses on two forms of CBT for adolescent depression: group and individual therapy. The group-based CBT is the Adolescent Coping with Depression (CWD-A)…
Introduction The format of this chapter is written to illustrate a single case administration of Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) to an early-onset, chronically depressed 39-year-old male. Large…
Introduction Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is well established as an empirically supported treatment for unipolar depression in adults. This statement sounds straightforward enough, until we realize that depression is actually a…
How Do We Define Diverse Populations? Before beginning our review of the literature, we first briefly explain our approach to conceptualizing diversity. Diversity in psychology is a broad term that…
Major Depressive Disorder: Definition, Epidemiology, and Course The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition—DSM-IV) defines Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) as the presence of five (or more) of…
